Improvements made at Land Trust

Jan. 25, 2013

Written by

Eddie Baza Calvo

We discovered irregularities (to state the least) at the Chamorro Land Trust Commission when we took office.

Monte Mafnas began looking into leases, wondering whether people and companies skipped ahead of others on the wait list. Not only was this a common practice, several people and companies with leases hadn't paid a dime of their fees.

The Chamorro Land Trust is exactly that -- a trust. It's held on behalf of qualifying recipients. To date, 10,741 of them are on a wait list to lease land so they can build homes for their families. These Chamorros right now are renting, scraping, struggling ...